As the sun sets or rises, groups of women take to Austin’s downtown and walk with people they just met. These women create their own little community, making new friends and enjoying time with old ones.
Maddie Scales created No Girl Walks Alone in August 2022, a women’s walking club that hosts free walking groups every Wednesday at 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. The club will host a celebratory walk on Aug. 13 to commemorate its third birthday, including pre-walk flash tattoos, permanent jewelry and food trucks.
“There’s a lot of community groups, and it was really important to me all along to be a consistent place for people,” Scales said. “When we say we’re there every Wednesday at the same time (and) same place, we mean that. We walked on Christmas, (and) we walked in the rain.”…